xvi, 237 p. ; 25 cm

Bibliography: p. [225]-231

Includes index

Introduction -- Social policy by steamroller -- Affirmative action: Legal history and public opinion -- An affirmative action sampler -- Invisible victims: Individual Reactions -- Invisible victims: reactions of co-workers, friends, and relatives -- Invisible victims: institutional responses -- Affirmative action and the mass media -- The spiral of silence and the new McCarthyism -- Affirmative action, the university, and sociology elite -- Accommodation and the flaws of affirmative action -- Manifest consequences of affirmative action -- Restructuring society by race and gender: Latent functions of affirmative action

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